Great! Feel free to contact this list if you have more design questions, but strictly if
you choose Samba AD you should contact samba-users list, but I'm happy to answer some
things directly too. Hope this helps!
On 16 Jun 2019, at 02:06, Eugene Poole <etpoole60(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
Since the most are laptops and tablets I'll power them down when not in use (all of
my Linux machines remain powered up all the time) I'll leave them out of the equation
for now until I read up on Samba.
TIA
Gene
On 6/13/2019 3:32 AM, William Brown wrote:
>
>> On 12 Jun 2019, at 19:43, Eugene Poole <etpoole60(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> All of my Windows machines are workstations (2 WIN 7 laptops; 1 WIN 7 desktop; 1
WIN 10 tablet). I have 1 ArcaOS (OS/2) desktop. The remainder of my machines (40+) are
CentOS Linux 7 and 6.
>>
>> My 'main' machine is CentOS 7 and it runs Oracle 12c database; PostgreSQL
9.6 database; master DNS; Apache Web Server; 6 KVM virtual machines.
>>
>> I am much more 'comfortable' on Linux than I am on Windows.
> The problem you will run into very quickly is that windows has no integration for
sharing users/groups with LDAP. Windows will only interact with active directory, which is
quite a different experience - but your linux clients can consume AD as generic LDAP
clients.
>
> There are some choices here like Samba AD for certain, but 389 may not do what you
want in this case I'm sorry :(
>
>> Gene
>>
>> On 6/12/2019 3:23 AM, William Brown wrote:
>>>> On 12 Jun 2019, at 04:25, Eugene Poole <etpoole60(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I need to control users and groups of users to provide them access to
specific machines. Once our machine number went above 15 controlling who has access to
what machines has become difficult.
>>> So you mention that you have some windows machines here too, is that correct?
Are the machines workstations or servers? You have some linux machines too?
>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>>
>>>> On 6/10/2019 4:11 AM, William Brown wrote:
>>>>>> On 7 Jun 2019, at 23:53, Eugene Poole
<etpoole60(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to upgrade my environment and I've reinstalled
my CentOS machines to CentOS 7 except for one. I've got my DNS for my LAN working
just fine. So now it's time for Directory Server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is a GOOD tutorial to follow? My environment includes 26
physical and KVM virtual machines; 4 Windows 7 machines and 1 ArcaOS (OS/2) machine. What
is a DS configuration to go for?
>>>>> I think the better thing to ask is what do you want to achieve here?
What's your ideal setup for integrating each of these clients, and what information do
you want to make available to them? I think that would help me to advise on "what
next" for you :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Eugene Poole
>>>>>> Woodstock, Georgia
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>>>>>
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>
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>
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